Normille

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by Normille 5y ago
Sites like this are the 21st century equivalent of the mediums of yesteryear. Taking advantage of the vulnerability of those unable to cope with the death of a loved one.
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>Bitcoin was up 8% at US$32,160.16, while ether surged 11.6% to $1,993.36 It's quite ironic that cryptocurrencies whose stated aim was to replace a financial system centrally directed by states and multinational financial
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Paywall
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Almost everyone. Apart from all the hardline Unionists in Northern Ireland who enthusiastically voted for Brexit and are now crying because they were too dumb to work out that the only place the customs border between the EU and UK could be
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As per my original post, while the lack of tooling is my biggest pain point around the language ecosystem, inside the language itself, my main gripe is with the error messages. I find them quite impenetrable a lot of the time. Which is not
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The language itself is very interesting. I've dabbled a few times and really like the clean ruby-esque syntax. What puts me off delving further is the lack of support in various editors / IDEs / Treesitter etc. I think the co
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Let me guess. You're the kind of person who thinks that refusing to 'take the knee' is the worst kind of fascism imagineable. But drawing attention to multiple [and documented] gang rapes of children, disabled people and the
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So, by your logic, "God told me to do it" trumps the law of the land which is supposed to apply equally to everybody? In a supposedly modern egalitarian and secular society, mediaeval voodoo and its associated fantasies should h
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Physics As a Liberal Art --James S Trefil A brilliant epic journey through the history of what we'd now call physics, beginning from primitive man pondering the night sky, right through to splitting the atom and the atomic age. Writt
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Or maybe this law will actually result in equality for everyone under the law and end the preferential treatment that certain minorities enjoy but which aren't extended to the rest of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi
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Should mention it won't run on 64bit OSes: https://github.com/red/red/issues/4359
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2014 called. It wants its article back
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>did commit suicide ... by suicide It's the best way to do it.
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I'm more annoyed by the things people say, rather than how they pronounce them. The way a phrase or expression crops up on one or two websites and then, before you know it, it seems the entire English speaking world has adopted those
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Next episode "Cuban gets taken ill in America, without having health insurance"
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I hate that "I really wanna be a novelist. But I'm stuck writing for this newspaper!" style of journalism. Just tell us the facts and stop trying to audition! >Macklin loads the dogs into the back of his brand-new, $
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Looks like vim-airline to me: https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline
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>A White House National Security Council spokesperson strongly condemned “all targeted assassinations in Afghanistan” And they say Americans don't do irony!
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I love the idea of this but the implementation is just woeful. I've tried it with various browsers on a few different computers and I've never been able to even create a new document. The interface is painfully slow and crashes c
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Package up dogshit, stick an American flag on the label and sell it as "American Style Dogshit". People all round the world will flock to buy it.
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Great book. One of Arthur C Clarke's best. The sequels are a bit disappointing, though.
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1: Hacker News 2: Cryptocompare 3: Amazon 4: eBay 5: DPReview
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Interesting that it's a Jewish university in Israel that has developed this method for [apparently] making transplanted pig organs not be rejected by the human body. I wonder what Judaism has to say about having pork transplants?
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Has there ever been so much "reaching out" in such a short period of time, since The Four Tops retired?
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>Does the web site have any idea how rude it is to claim that my last name contains invalid characters? Clearly not That is one of the milder error messages. I have an accented character in my first name and run up against this a
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So, you think it's OK that your bank decides what you can do with your own money? What if 'for your own good' your bank decides to block any purchases you try to make at your local fast food shop?.. or off-licence?.. or betti
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Is this a similar effect to 'nasal breathing' [0] while running? ie. you're making the cardiovascular system work harder to get the oxygen it needs. [0] https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a33993505&#x2
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I wouldn't bother. Their search results are shite
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I think the kind of classic travel writing the article refers to would also appeal to people who want to read about real people having real adventures, usually by themselves. Rather than the fake, seemingly endless "Irritating celebri
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TL;DR; China is actually showing a bit of creativity and pride in its cultural heritage, by drawing on its folklore, when naming aspects of its space programme. Contrast with Europe's excruciating aping of the US practice of contriving

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